photo by Shawn Poole May 31, 2026 "Philly, you killed it! This is the last night of our Land of Hope & Dreams Tour; it was good to be in Philadelphia. I want to thank our great crew and their fearless leader, George Travis, without whom the show would not go on. I want to thank the E Street Band for their commitment and for their courage in standing with me on this tour. I want to thank Tom Morello for guesting with us on this tour. I want to thank Jon Landau for fifty years

photo by Shawn Poole May 28, 2026 Last night, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band brought their Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour to its ultimate "speak-truth-to-power" venue: the Washington Nationals' baseball park in Washington, D.C. It also marked the tour's only outdoor show, and while Mother Nature peppered the audience with light rain throughout the evening, fortunately she spared us of any of her lightning-bolts. What took place onstage was more than thunderous eno

May 26, 2026 Music journalist, critic, and author Erin Osmon's recently published book Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America, couldn't have come along at a better time, especially with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - who indeed were and in significant ways still are major figures in the heartland-rock genre - wrapping up their historic Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour, a musical "fight for America" if ever there was one. Osmon's book focuses on

May 22, 2026 Directly preceding The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's two-nights (and now sold-out) Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us concert events will be a unique, free concert celebrating the rich history and enduring legacy of Indigenous music in America. The Center has partnered with Hard Rock International to produce The Native American Music Experience. This concert will take place at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre on Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30

May 21, 2026 Last night, the penultimate episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert closed with Colbert introducing a musical performance by Bruce Springsteen. Before he began singing a solo-acoustic version of "Streets of Minneapolis," Springsteen said the following: "Thank you. Stephen... I'm here in support tonight for Stephen because, uh, you're the first guy in America who's lost his show because we got a President who can't take a joke...and because Larry and David E

May 18, 2026 More than five decades have now passed between Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's mid-1970s performances in the small New York town of Geneva, as captured by photographer James Fuller, and their most recent performance in New York City this past Saturday night, photographed for Letters To You by Mark Krajnak. Back then in Geneva, Bruce and his band were playing to no more than 1400 ticket-buyers per show. Last Saturday night, they performed to yet another so

Geneva, NY - December 7, 1974 - photo by James Fuller (used with permission) May 12, 2026 With Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's return to New York this week, there's no better time to check out James Fuller's beautiful, high-quality book of photos, Spirit in the Light: Photographing Springsteen 1973-75. Three of the four concerts depicted in the book, captured in glorious black-and-white by Fuller as a young college student with a budding interest in photography, took

May 10, 2026 Just in time for Mother's Day 2026, our friend and Letters To You contributor Doug Bradley has published his latest book, All the Books She Never Wrote. It's a unique memoir about the special time that Doug got to spend with his mother, Lucy Bradley, in her final days. A few weeks after her ninety-ninth birthday, Lucy decided she was ready to die. After a series of health setbacks, she stopped eating, certain the end would come quickly. Instead, her extended good

photo by Rob DeMartin - (Chicago, IL; April 29, 2026) - used with permission May 4, 2026 Happy-birthday wishes go out today to Sister Soozie Tyrell, fiddler extraordinaire and - as an essential member of the current Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour - now freedom fighter, too. The late, great Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "First fight. Then fiddle." ends as follows: "...Rise bloody, maybe not too late For having first to civilize a space Wherein to play your violin with grace."

photo by Brian Samelson - used with permission May 3, 2026 Almost three years ago now, when this website was launched, I wrote an introductory "welcome" message as its editor/publisher. One of the things I touched upon was why Bruce Springsteen was and has remained such a significant and important musical artist for me. The penultimate reason, I asserted, was that in addition to my having been deeply affected by all of the artistic qualities in Springsteen's own music, Bruce

May 3, 2026 As per the official announcement, "Due to the NBA and NHL playoff schedule, the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band concert at Xfinity Mobile Arena has been rescheduled for May 30. All tickets for the previous date will remain valid for the new date."